TECHNOLOGY NEWS
Collaboration Creates New Club Sound System
FLIPSIDE Soundsystem, a new company from audio veterans James Cooper and Michael Layton, has chosen
Lab.gruppen amps and Lake speaker management for its sound systems, the first of which was recently installed in London’s Egg nightclub. As Cooper explained: “The
system itself is a double 18 Reflex hybrid sub, and then a double 15 tap horn kick unit. The top boxes are a horn loaded phase bung 12, and a horn loaded compression driver – we’ve used the best loudspeaker designers that we’ve come across in the underground scene.”
Flipside collaborated with Michael Hurley from Purple Dot, Ian F from Element 5, and Michael Arena from Arena LSD in Australia. Layton said: “All of the designs we’ve worked with, modified, and produced a pro-level system that sounds absolutely fantastic. “It’s a point source array so
everything can be flown, or it works as a ground stack.” Since the idea was to
produce a complete system, Cooper and Layton then looked at what would provide the power behind Flipside’s custom-built speaker boxes. “When we first started
researching what amplifiers we were going to use, the name
Lab.gruppen was the first to come up, because first and foremost, we wanted both power and reliability. “For our bass units, we built them around precision device drivers, so the first problem we faced was that we needed a hell of a lot of grunt in our subs, and a lot of power going into them. When we started our research into what amps to use, it was always
Lab.gruppen. We played around with them for a while and loved them, so it was an easy choice,” Layton added.
Double Launch for RØDE
RØDE HASannounced the availability of the M5 and NT1 microphones. The M5 was inspired by the company’s flagship small- diaphragm NT5 and features a 0.5in cardioid electret condenser capsule; it is available in acoustically matched pairs. If purchased as a matched pair, the
M5s are selected to ensure a variation of no more than 1dB sensitivity. The mic’s low noise and full
frequency response is said to make it a good choice for studio recording and live performance, including handling a range of acoustic instruments, choirs, or anywhere else you might employ a
small-diaphragm condenser, either individually or as a stereo array. The NT1 is the first update to the
company’s flagship studio microphone since the NT1-A was introduced almost 14 years ago.
Although the body of the new NT1
closely resembles the NT1-A, the microphone has been completely redesigned from the ground up, with the only shared component being the mesh grille.
The NT1 has been developed with a
focus on detailed midrange response, coupled with silky smooth high frequencies, and warm, round bass
reproduction. The transducer is suspended inside the microphone using Rycote’s Lyre system, minimising external vibrations at the capsule level. The NT1 is a quiet microphone, measuring only 4.5dBA of self-noise.
Its body is machined
from 6061 aluminium and then nickel-plated for resistance against corrosion. Finally, it is coated in a durable, military-grade ceramic layer, using advanced electrostatic application
Sound Devices Releases the 633 Mixer It also offers 10-track, 24-bit, 48kHz
SOUND DEVICES has revealed its latest product: the 633 mixer. The 633 is a six-input mixer with integrated 10-track recorder that includes Sound Devices’ proprietary PowerSafe technology and a four-way power supply for maximum operational runtime. It comes with a full complement of I/O options and is designed for over-the-shoulder applications. The 633 mixer/recorder features six inputs, with three high-bandwidth mic/line XLR inputs complete with phantom power, high- pass filter, input limiter, and variable pan. Three additional line-level inputs appear on TA3 (mini-XLR) connectors. All inputs are assignable to any output bus and AES digital I/O, including support for AES42 digital microphones, is available.
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uncompressed polyphonic or monophonic broadcast WAV file recording (96kHz for eight tracks, 192kHz for six tracks) or
techniques developed by RØDE to ensure an extremely hardwearing finish
that is resistant to scratches or marks.
www.rodemic.com
Soundcraft Introduces
ViSi Remote 2.0 HARMAN’S SOUNDCRAFT has announced Version 2.0 of its ViSi Remote iPad app, which allows remote control of Soundcraft Vi, Si Compact, Si Performer, and Si Expression mixing consoles wirelessly from an iPad. Version 2.0 requires no additional hardware other than a
timecode stamped MP3 recording to CompactFlash and/or SD cards. Similar to Sound Devices’ 12-input 664
Production Mixer, the 633 offers dual card slots that record to either one or both cards simultaneously, with the added ability to
assign different tracks to each memory card.
www.sounddevices.com
wireless router connected to the Harman HiQnet Ethernet port of the console. ViSi Remote 2.0 gives engineers the ability to freely
roam the venue and adjust mixes and other audio parameters (such as monitor levels) directly from an iPad. With 2.0 comes the ability for Si Compact, Performer, and Expression users to adjust channel strip settings per channel including settings such as Gate, Compressor, and EQ along with Pan, LR/Mono routing, and phase invert
switches.
www.harman.com
www.audiomedia.com The first amps Cooper and
Layton got were an FP 10000Q and an FP 14000Q. Once the amplification was chosen, signal processing was the next step, and with Lake Processing now under the stewardship of
Lab.gruppen, it was Lake’s LM Series that provided the perfect solution. The Egg
install runs on three LM 26s and one LM 44 at front of house. Flipside is now in the
process of building its second complete set of racks and stacks and will also be producing a system for event and venue hire.
www.flipside-soundsystem.co.uk labgruppen.com
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